Full 4th Circuit Hears Arguments On Plan’s Gender Surgery Exclusion

Mealey's (September 21, 2023, 1:59 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — The en banc Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard oral argument Sept. 21 over whether North Carolina’s health plan’s exclusion on gender transition procedures necessarily discriminates on the basis of sex of the patient or simply imposes an exclusion on certain treatments like any other designed to save it and the state money....